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Cleverwood Barbecue 2009

Monday, July 27th, 2009 | Dynamic Insourcing | 1 Comment

After a great and successful first half of 2009, time had come to celebrate and relax a bit. Thank you everyone for participating and making a success out of it… until very late for some of you and a special thanks to our host Jurgen. You will find the pictures on Flickr and Facebook.

Comments are welcome of course.

Next to our usual Trends Sessions and Friday Sessions, I’ll make sure we get soon another opportunity to share our common new media passion in such a chill-out environment mode.

Have fun with New Media!

Olivier

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Introducing Dynamic Insourcing

Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Dynamic Insourcing | 2 Comments

In the bodyshopping market and global HR context, cleverwood introduces a new sourcing concept based on the most recent theories on HR 2.0 and Entreprise 2.0. This concept is called Dynamic Insourcing.

Dynamic Insourcing is both a theoretical notion (a concept that we develop day after day) and a pragmatic way of working (a service offering), making our beliefs actionable in the current fast-evolving market.

Dynamic Insourcing is twofold :

1. On one hand, Dynamic Insourcing creates the conditions for an adaptive way of working for employees. As a matter of fact, we are convinced that classical careers are long gone, words like fixed phones, traditional workplace, permanent hiring contract, career plans, badging and timekeepers are becoming obsolete. This is why we want Dynamic Insourcing for our people. We want them to hear words like home-working, flexibility, adapted work hours, work-life balance, while maintaining high standards of quality and efficiency.
2. On the other hand, from the employer side, we think time has come for a major social deregulation, where people expect something else from their employers.

Flexible work-time balance

We believe work should adapt to times in your life.

• young single: an early phase in the career where giving the best and a high priority to the job is very common;
• young couples with babies: a stage in the life where organization is the key, words like work-life balance become important and finding time for the family is crucial;
• senior people in the second half of their careers, a time to deliver while reducing the daily pressure;
• more senior people in their career’s last decade, maybe the time to reduce the work involvement, use the wisdom and the years of experience to teach and organize, to draw some lines for the future.

Dynamic Insourcing offers our people a personalized development plan that is based on several one-to-one interviews and where the consultant is the corner stone in creating such plan. He/she is encouraged to develop short/medium/long term objectives and then cleverwood is putting the right instruments in place to make it happen. Dynamic Insourcing offers an access to senior coaching and mentorship, getting regular tips and having a sparing partner to discuss the next steps in a professional life. It also offers to work in many different environments, alternating various missions in many sectors (in our case always with a link to the digital & interactive business). Doing this, employees will stay on the edge of their respective area of expertise and this is a great guarantee that the time they will spend with cleverwood will be valuable for the clients, for them and for cleverwood.

This all is a major investment in the human side of business, and we tend to believe that this is exactly what our current and future clients are expecting from our services.

Knowledge Management and Organisation 2.0

One of our major investments is also in the knowledge sharing. We expect everyone working with us to be a true 2.0. individual with a natural tendency to share knowledge and experience. We invest in collaborative tools, in weekly sharing sessions and the coaching and mentoring programs are meant to nurture the exchange of information.

Entrepreneurship and Trust

Another point Dynamic Insourcing brings on? Pushing employees to be entrepreneurs. More precisely: intra-preneurs. The sector of digital business offers tons of new opportunities every single day. Working in a secure environment where intra-preneurship will be welcomed and put forward, where individuals can benefit from the community to start new projects is also a very positive approach. Creativity sparks in… and the power of the community becomes reality.
Work nowadays turns to a “a la carte” model, depending of the stage of professional and private life. Employees will expect from an employer to be able to scale investment and responsibilities.

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